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abredow

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About abredow

Web dev at tableproject.org, hailing from Holland, MI

http://andrewbredow.com

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    Comment #5393770

    The homepage does. This link is to the release announcement.

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    Comment #5382021

    We talked about this in a CPR class once. The biggest reason paramedics don't run is to avoid injury, which would obviously impede their ability to help.

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    Comment #4844589

    This looks beautiful. But I'm curious, do users no longer expect/like their platform's native dialogs for these things?

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    Comment #4661640

    This is the key that I missed when I first read the article. Mixins will always be repeated when compiled. Placeholders result in combined selectors so the styles aren't repeated i…

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    Comment #3408165

    I have a Brother Laser that did the same thing... however, it has a setting in it's web admin called "Replace Toner" with the options of Continue or Stop. All I had to do was selec…

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    Comment #3039398

    I think that TM probably made a big mistake by offering a free upgrade to 2.0. Especially given the apparent ambition of the rewrite. Assuming it has some nice new stuff, I, for on…

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    Comment #3035863

    Cookies can still be read if this is set to "off."

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    Comment #3024551

    The infinite scroll example he linked to in the presentation is very nice. Putting the max_id in the URL is a great way to save the state. http://warpspire.com/experiments/history-…

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    Comment #3015828

    Ha, I did not know that he had a forthcoming children's book! This should be good.

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    Comment #2989350

    This looks great. It's awesome that we can make sites like this that theoretically allow us to serve the same pages to desktop and mobile browsers. I'm curious though, is there any…

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    Comment #2816949

    I hear these sorts of things regarding hosting all of the time. However, in my experience, if you are working on an app that is large enough to warrant using a framework like Symfo…

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    Comment #2605853

    You can create an object that implements the ArrayAccess interface, but it doesn't extend the native array object in the traditional sense.

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    Comment #2586415

    Don't forget approximately 34 versions of Chrome and Firefox :)

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    Comment #2461337

    You can change that. Like the iPhone, the signature just defaults to a promotional message.

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    Comment #2369572

    I have traditionally used honeypot fields in this manner. Recently, however, I have noticed some false positives because of autofill features in browsers (especially Chrome). To wo…

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    Comment #2352884

    There was some interesting discussion about the current state of the hg-git plugin on the Changelog show last month (episode 0.4.9) when they interviewed Scott Chacon from Github.

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    Comment #2292642

    Because they both have widespread adoption?

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    Comment #2282092

    It isn't too hard for someone who is already familiar Apache. On OS X, mod_php is not enabled by default, requiring new users to dig in and learn about apache config files and docu…

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    Comment #2281939

    Seems like the built in server would be most useful for newbies to get an application running. Think if how much easier it is to get a basic Rails app running to start learning com…

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    Comment #2271328

    Well, they were right about 1 thing: mutton chops will never go out of style!

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    Comment #2255176

    They're just trying to make Sarasota sound a lot more interesting than it actually is :)

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    Comment #2206669

    This adequately describes a sentiment that I hadn't previously figured out how to put to words!